#Rec 2007 release date series#
#Rec 2007 release date tv#

Yet rather than turning into a blurry mess, Rec remains a thrill ride from beginning to end. As the story progresses the film grows increasingly claustrophobic and wildly chaotic, with residents turning on each other in their panic. Rec similarly structures the plot so that areas of danger and areas of relief can practically be mapped to the structure of the building. Die Hard gets praised for its intricate placing of characters so they’re in the right place for the right moment in the film.

#Rec 2007 release date series#

Rec has a relatively simple plot which allows for a series of scares and escalating terror, but what’s key to its continued success is how meticulously well planned the script is.

As they return to the ground floor, they learn that the health department has locked the exits and placed the building in quarantine, trapping everyone inside with some unknown infection. An old woman in one apartment seems to have gone mad, uncontrollably aggressive she attacks a police officer forcing Angela and the rest to flee. Once they arrive there, all the residents are gathered in the stairwell, unsure what’s going on and disturbed by shouting coming from one of their neighbours. Of course, it eventually does and she and Pablo rush to an apartment block along with Fireman Manu ( Ferran Terraza). The boredom shows on Angela’s face throughout the interviews, clearly disappointed in their assignment and desperate for something to happen she keeps wishing the alarm will ring.

#Rec 2007 release date tv#

The film centres on two TV reporters, Angela ( Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman Pablo ( Javier Coromina) as they follow a group of local firemen. In revisiting Rec now, it is pleasantly surprising to see how well it holds up.

Nowadays Found Footage seems to have died a death, its own clichés have grown clichés, and every trick and turn it had has become predictable. Found Footage had thoroughly out-stayed its welcome and the horror market was over-saturated with cheap and poorly made imitators, thoroughly killing any originality the subgenre once had. Rereleased now by Arrow Video, on an upgraded Blu-ray edition, the landscape of the Horror genre looks considerably different. Even at the time the film managed to rise above the rest, gaining international attention, spawning numerous sequels and the inevitable, inferior American remake. Starting with 1999’s Blair Witch Project there was a considerable amount of time where it felt like if a film wasn’t in the found footage style it wasn’t a horror film. Originally released in 2007, Spanish horror flick Rec debuted amongst the height of the Found Footage craze.